College of Pharmacy | A Year in Review by NEOMED

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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S 03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dean’s Message 04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who We Are 05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A 2018 Industry Topic Of Interest: Medical Marijuana 06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2018 Revisited 08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ofﬁce of Student Success 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interprofessional Education (IPE) 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Residencies 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Student Engagement 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Student Organizations at NEOMED 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class of 2018 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class of 2022 White Coat 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Career Ready 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Faculty Spotlight 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alumni Spotlight 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Future is Now

DEAN’S MESSAGE Dear NEOMED College of Pharmacy family and friends, The theme of this Annual Report is “Moving Forward,” and that indeed is what we are doing on many fronts in the College of Pharmacy. First, we are moving forward to implement Curriculum 2.0. Following the launch of Standards 2016 by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, our faculty spent a great deal of time in 2018 considering how best to develop and deliver a world-class curriculum. Enhancements will include a longitudinal IPE course, co-curricular activities and a new biotechnology course, all to be launched in 2019. These new additions will enhance our students’ preparation for their professional careers.

Richard J. Kasmer, Pharm.D., J.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs Dean, College of Pharmacy Professor of Pharmacy Practice Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Many faculty members have embraced different forms of active learning, using our technology-equipped classrooms. They are pursuing the “flipped classroom” in which students prepare for class, then work through cases and solve problems in class to reinforce what they have learned. One great example is Dr. Lukas Everly, who is working to upgrade the Ohio and Federal Law courses to operate in this fashion. We are heavily into assessment and continuous quality improvement in all aspects of the college. While the outcome of all the changes will be measured in our graduates’ capabilities, we are connecting assessment with the new Curriculum 2.0 to focus our efforts on student success. Second, we are moving forward on research. Faculty members in the University’s Neurodegenerative Disease

and Aging Research Focus Area have received new grants to expand efforts beyond our earlier focus on Parkinson’s disease to also explore Alzheimer’s disease. We greatly appreciate the support of the generous donors who have funded several of these important projects. The College has also launched pilot grants to create new data, building a foundation for long-term projects and grants in additional areas of pharmacy. Finally, we are moving forward on our practice initiatives. The residency training program at AxessPointe Community Health Centers continues to grow, along with the number of practice sites for this organization — a federally qualified health center (FQHC) that provides much-needed care to Ohio residents and offers our students a tremendous training opportunity. Pharmacy Innovations LLC was launched and is in the process of providing medication therapy management services to hospital systems, physician groups and employer groups. This past academic year has advanced the College in many ways beyond those mentioned above. I am proud of what we have accomplished and look forward to more productive years ahead. I hope you enjoy this annual report and continue to move forward with reading the rest of our great story. All my best,

Richard Kasmer, Pharm.D., J.D. Dean

WHO WE ARE CLASS oƒ 2022 ENROLLMENT

2018:

TOTAL COLLEGE oƒ PHARMACY ENROLLMENT

315

LARGEST and MOST DIVERSE INCOMING CLASS to DATE

700

PRECEPTORS, including out-of-area sites

90.5

oƒ GRADUATES PRACTICE in OHIO

13% URM

29%

OUT-OF-STATE STUDENTS (9% increase)

61% FEMALE (4% increase)

56%

oƒ STUDENTS ATTENDED a PARTNER SCHOOL (Cleveland State University, Kent State University, University of Akron, Youngstown State University)

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PHARMACY PRACTICE PARTNER LOCATIONS PLUS ONE ON-CAMPUS PHARMACY: Rootstown Community Pharmacy

A 2018 INDUSTRY TOPIC OF INTEREST: MEDICAL MARIJUANA Doctors of Pharmacy have always been in the position to go beyond the delivery of medications and therapeutics. In December 2018, new legislation that was approved during the Ohio Senate session went one step further, allowing pharmacists to be reimbursed for care. Officially signed by Gov. John Kasich, Senate Bill 265 increased pharmacists’ ability to practice at the top of their license — prescribing for their patients and being empowered to take a more holistic role in patient health.

In a 2018 interview, Dr. Messamore told Kent State University’s National Public Radio affiliate WKSU (89.7 FM) that recent research points to the conclusion that schizophrenia is not a single disease with a single cause.

Not too long before SB 265, the state-run marijuana licensing system for growing facilities, testing labs, physician certification, patient registration, processors and retail dispensaries was made fully operational in Ohio. And as Ohio joined the entire country grappling with the question of whether to approve cannabis for medical or recreational purposes, it became evident that the expertise of pharmacists, particularly in patient care and pharmacotherapy, was needed even more than previously imagined.

Messamore believes society is drastically underestimating the risks young people face from cannabis use.

Already being called upon by the U.S. Surgeon General — along with other health care practitioners and public health leaders — to help with the prescription opioid crisis, interprofessionally trained pharmacists such as NEOMED graduates became key players at the intersection of the treatment of disease, mental illness and drugs. Pharmaceutical science was also part of the discourse. NEOMED physician/scientist Erik Messamore, M.D., Ph.D., a trained pharmacologist who specializes in the treatment of mental illness — particularly schizophrenia — has been part of a national conversation about marijuana.

While mostly genetic, environmental risk factors can trigger the onset of symptoms, says Messamore: stress, certain infections, and a plant that’s gaining popularity as a medicine — marijuana.

“During adolescence the brain is rewiring itself — it’s doing massive amounts of reorganization,” he says, “and this potently brain active chemical can interact in who knows how many ways. Dr. Messamore continues to write on developing issues of cannabis in publications including his own blog, erikmessamore.com/blog/. With the debate regarding marijuana’s impact on those with mental illness continuing, the extent of the impact practicing pharmacists may have on patient care and drug therapy management may be contingent upon SB265 and the reimbursement practices that are put in place.

WHILE MOSTLY GENETIC, ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS CAN TRIGGER THE ONSET OF SYMPTOMS, SAYS MESSAMORE: STRESS, CERTAIN INFECTIONS, AND A PLANT THAT’S GAINING POPULARITY AS A MEDICINE — MARIJUANA. MESSAMORE BELIEVES SOCIETY IS DRASTICALLY UNDERESTIMATING THE RISKS YOUNG PEOPLE FACE FROM CANNABIS USE.

2018 REVISITED

Jaclyn Boyle, Pharm.D. (’12), M.B.A., BCACP, BCPS

MARCH • Office of Student Success established • College raises more than $1,500 for the Tahani Mansour Memorial Scholarship Fund at its first-ever Match Madness basketball tournament — students vs. faculty and staff. • Mate Soric, Pharm.D., R.Ph., BCPS, appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy

Match Madness baseketball tournament

APRIL • Sheila Fleming, Ph.D., is the keynote speaker at the Center for Research on Brain, Behavior, and Neurorehabilitation Symposium at Purdue University. • Anhui Medical University interns complete Semester Immersion Program (2017-18).

MAY .D., M.Pharm, • Altaf Darvesh, Ph cement elected as Commen College hooder for both the e College of Pharmacy and th the first time of Medicine. This is of Pharmacy a primarily College been selected faculty member has as a hooder by the M4 students edicine. for the College of M Ph., associate • Daniel Krinsky, R. y practice, professor of pharmac Pharmacists installed as an Ohio trustee Association (OPA)

AUG. • College of Pharmacy Welcomes Its Fourth Cohort of AMU Interns Mengya Chen, Yu Du, Huarong Li, Yuanqin Su, Xueting Wang, and Xiujin Xu, all selected by Anhui Medical University as student interns to participate in the Pharmacy Semester Immersion Program for academic year 20182019, arrive in Rootstown. With them is Professor Jinfang Ge, AMU faculty member, who is participating in the COP International Educator Fellow Program.

NOV. • Jaclyn Boyle, Pharm.D. (’12 ), OCT. M.B.A. BCACP, BCPS, appoin ted • Christine Crish, Ph.D., vice chair, American Association participates as a panelist in of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP ) “The Person Comes First: Strategic Plan, Bylaws, and A Dementia and Caregiving Resolutions Committee Symposium” in Warrensville Hts ., • Dr. Christine Cri sh gives the Ohio, sponsored by Maplewoo d keynote address, “Taking Researc h Senior Living, in partnership from the Bench to the Public: with the Alzheimer’s Association , A Challenge to Women in Benjamin Rose Institute Vision Research,” at the Preven t on Aging and NEOMED. Blindness Vision Research Dr. Crish’s panel presents Scientific Forum on Nov. 16, information on and answered 2018, at The University of Akr on. questions from the audience about the latest pharmaceutica l research on dementia. • Dr. Crish is appointed to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Easter Ohio Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association .

Anhui Medical University Tour

Christine Crish. Ph.D

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING: Bruce S. Navigating the Seas of Conflict and Negotiation. Podium presentation with co-presenters A. Franks, J. Gervasio, and S. Haines at the Interim Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Long Beach CA February 2018. Soric MM. “Heart Failure Guideline Update.” Midwest Pharmacy Expo, Des Moines, IA, February 2018. Soric MM. “Chronic Care Management: Cardiology.” Midwest Pharmacy Expo, Des Moines, IA, February 2018. Johnson A, Fosnight S, Jones R. Transforming Discharge. Invited Webinar. Ohio Hospital Association. Feb 8, 2018. Fosnight S, Harvan A, Lehotsky A, Gareri M, Kropp D, Forgash S, Hazelett S, Heilmann P, Drost J. Medications and Falls Outcomes in an Interprofessional Falls Clinic. Poster presentation at The American Geriatrics Society Scientific Meeting. Orlando, Florida, accepted for presentation in May 2018.

2018 Poster Day

Ilodi Y, Fosnight S, Forgash S, Hazelett S , Blake K, Drost J. Using a Geriatric Model to Provide Primary Care to Patients with Chronic Disease. Poster presentation at The American Geriatrics Society Scientific Meeting. Orlando, Florida, accepted for Presidential presentation in May 2018. Harvan A, Gareri M, Hazelett S, Fosnight S, Lehotsky K, Morgan A, Kropp D, Drost J, Forgash S, Sisak C, Scott E, Tritchler B, Peterson K. Decreasing Falls Through Integration of Healthcare and Community Based Providers in an Interprofessional Falls Risk Reduction Clinic. Poster presentation at The American Geriatrics Society Scientific Meeting. Orlando, Florida, accepted for presentation in May 2018. Krebs A, Wolff G, Ahmad S, Fosnight S, Drost J, Gothard D. Melatonin Effect on Incident Delirium in Hospitalized Patients. Poster presentation at The American Geriatrics Society Scientific Meeting. Orlando, Florida, accepted for presentation in May 2018. Lee JK, Fosnight SM, Estus E, Evans PJ, Pho V, Reidt S, Reist JC, Ruby CM, Sibicky S, Wheeler JB. Clinical Research that Matters: Designing Outcome-Based Research for Older Adults to Qualify for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Consult Pharm 2018; 33: 24-32.

OFFICE OF STUDENT SUCCESS

The Ofﬁce of Student Success is the hub for training at every stage, both for future and current pharmacy students, and for those transitioning into professional settings. The Ofﬁce offers support to prospective students, current students and alumni:

POSTGRADUATE RESIDENCY TRAINING Co-sponsored or paid residencies: • Two residencies at AxessPointe Community Health Centers (Federally Qualified Health Centers) — one for a Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1), one for a Postgraduate Year 2 (PGY2) — with four days at the practice site and one day on campus for teaching or community work

• One PGY2 Residency at University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center, academically focused to prepare the resident for a shared faculty job

STUDENT DEVELOPMENT Faculty advising, including a Professional Development and Advising Team providing • Faculty advisors who follow students through all four years • Peer advisors/mentors

Co-curricular activities • Leadership development that complements training required for accreditation • Support for involvement in professional organizations, including student chapters of national organizations • Advocacy events, such as a student legislative day

PIPELINE PROGRAMMING (pre-admissions) • Pharmacy programs for high school and undergraduate students, including Pathways to Pharmacy — an immersive week at NEOMED for high school students that includes hands-on activities, such as vitals training and medication compounding, as well as career exploration • Early Assurance programs for college students, confirming admission to the College of Pharmacy during the student’s junior year

Career advising • One-on-one discussions about career paths • C.V. and resume reviews, practice interviews • Etiquette dinner

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

TEACHING CERTIFICATE One-year teaching and learning curriculum prepares pharmacy residents and pharmacists to become academicians and preceptors through targeted professional development in teaching, assessment and precepting skills. Teaching and assessment opportunities are offered live and follow nationally established best practice recommendations for teaching and learning curricula.

INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUC ATION ( IPE )

The College of Pharmacy offers an innovative and interprofessional curriculum that blends classroom and practice experience to give graduates the knowledge, skill and professionalism that is necessary to succeed as pharmacists. The rigor of interprofessional education (IPE) expands the roles of our graduates as “team-ready” health professionals. During 2018, the COP faculty worked to create Curriculum 2.0 and the next phase of the Doctor of Pharmacy program. Over several years, faculty reviewed the College’s original curriculum to identify strengths, opportunities for improvement, and new content for the new curriculum. While the original curriculum performed well and student outcomes were outstanding, the original curriculum would not fit in the new University academic calendar, thus we took the opportunity to review and update how we are preparing pharmacists for the future.

DOCTOR OF PHARMACY CURRICULUM YEAR 1 THEME: DOSAGE FORMS Provides students with knowledge and experience to select appropriate dosage forms for a given situation, research the availability of dosage forms, and compound individualized dosage forms. Students are exposed to various pharmacy practice settings (chain, independent, hospital and specialty settings, etc). YEAR 2 THEME: MEDICATION USE SYSTEM Provides knowledge and insight into managing pharmacy duties and personnel, dispensing medications safely and recognizing the importance of pharmacology, biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics when selecting the correct dosage regimen and formulation for a patient. Students utilize this knowledge during practice site visits and become certified in several skills, including administering immunizations and Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services. Interaction with medicine students continues with a comprehensive self-directed interprofessional team project.

YEAR 3 THEME: PATIENT SAFETY Provides students an understanding of existing federal laws and their application in the practice setting. Further develops the knowledge and skills needed to design the optimal therapeutic regimen for a disease or situation, and to monitor and report less than optimal outcomes based on the best available evidence. Experiences in class and in practice settings prepares students to enter full-time patient contact in year four where they will share in the care of, and decisions concerning patients. YEAR 4 THEME: PATIENT-CENTERED CARE Provides an extensive exposure to direct patient care at ambulatory care, acute care, community pharmacy and health-system pharmacy settings in which students influence the decision-making and outcomes of therapeutic management of disease conditions. The fourth year ends with a Pharmacy Capstone designed to assist students with the transition to becoming licensed pharmacists and the next stages of their professional lives.

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NEOMED provides a pharmacy residency track that prepares incoming pharmacy students to apply for and secure a residency following graduation. The four-year program includes activities such as attending residency information sessions, shadowing pharmacy residents, attending local and regional conferences and more.

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RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

Although pharmacy residencies are not mandatory, many of our students have embraced this opportunity since our inception. With the transformation of the pharmacy profession and the surging advocacy to obtain provider status for pharmacists, many are seeing the direct benefits of this post-graduate experience as they have become increasingly involved in direct patient care.

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Post-graduate pharmacy residency education prepares pharmacists with extensive experience in delivering patient-centered care, developing practice leadership skills, providing patient and student education and training, building project management skills and engaging in research.

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STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

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COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS

STUDENT ORGANIZATION PHARMACY EVENTS

PHARMACY FRATERNITIES Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc. Zeta Epsilon Chapter Lambda Kappa Sigma, Alpha Chi Chapter

PHARMACY HONOR SOCIETIES Phi Lambda Sigma, Gamma Phi Chapter Rho Chi Society, Delta Phi Chapter

AWARD-WINNING STUDENT-RUN FREE CLINIC (interprofessional)

PHARMACY STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists Bio-Med Speech and Debate Team BLIMP Checkered Whales College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists FFFPC Fit Club I Love Ice Cream Club Kappa Psi Pharmacy Fraternity Zeta Epsilon Lambda Kappa Sigma Latino Medical Student Association Musicians in Medicine Muslim Student Association NCPA NEOMED Relay for Life NEOMED Veterinary Pharmacy Club Oncology Interest Group OutReach Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group Phi Lambda Sigma Psychiatry Student Interest Group Public Health Interest Group (PHIG) SIIRS Sikh Student Association Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists Student College of Clinical Pharmacy Students for a National Health Program Walking Whale Barbell Club Walking Whales Cooking Club

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS AT NEOMED

CLASS OF 2018

2018 AACP GRADUATING STUDENT SURVEY

GRADUATES

97 100 % %

Would choose NEOMED again and felt prepared to enter pharmacy practice

felt their pharmacy practice experiences allowed them to • collaborate with other health care professionals • have direct interaction with diverse patient populations

NEOMED STUDENTS RANKED

#1 & #6 in OHIO

NATIONALLY

1ST TIME NAPLEX PASS RATES 129 SCHOOLS PARTICIPATED 14,103

NATIONALLY, STUDENTS TOOK THE TEST

NAPLEX RESULTS (First-time test-takers)

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83.7%

CLASS OF 2022 WHITE COAT

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ANNUAL PHARMACY CAREER FAIR

OPTIMAL RESUME

ALUMNI AND FACULTY MENTORS

BUSINESS ETIQUETTE DINNER

Throughout the year, our students made great use of our vast array of career and leadership resources, gaining personalized attention through career coaching to meet their career development needs. Whether they were exploring specialty or traditional pharmacy options, including Community Pharmacy, Veterinary Pharmacy, Drug Development, Hospital Pharmacy, Academic or Consultant Pharmacy, students found our breadth of services quite useful.

INTERVIEW STREAM

RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE EXPERIENCE

CAREER COACHING

CAREER LINK MOCK INTERVIEWS

Annual Pharmacy Career Fair

Interview Workshops

Resume Guidance

Students met with potential employers to learn about opportunities.

Students participated in designated curricular experiences to practice interview skills with their advisors

Students created and maintained their resumes and CVs using a web-based portfolio system

Alumni and Faculty Mentors

Career Coaching

Job Opportunities

Students had the potential to be matched with alumni or faculty mentors in a specific area of pharmacy.

Personalized career guidance through advisors and/or members of the Office of Student Success

Access to job postings, residency, and fellowship opportunities via experiential learning software

Business Etiquette Dinner

Research and Community Service Experience

OfďŹ ce of Student Success

An etiquette expert coached students on social norms and expectations for their behavior at public events they will attend as new professionals.

Local, regional, national and global research fellowships, internships and externships, summer programs and community service opportunities.

Staffed office providing open office hours to discuss professional and personal development opportunities

F AC U LT Y S P O T L I G H T In 2018, a low-cost pharmacy opened in downtown Akron, Ohio, about 15 minutes west of the NEOMED campus, through the leadership of Magdi Awad, Pharm.D., R.Ph., an associate professor of pharmacy practice. AxessPointe is a Federally Qualified Health Center that offers medical care to underserved customers. This is the third pharmacy that Dr. Awad has opened for AxessPointe in Northeast Ohio since joining the non-profit in 2010 as shared faculty. Many Axess Pointe patients are underserved, with limited resources. As a faculty member, Dr. Awad demonstrates to anyone from firstyear students through PGY2 residents from the College of Pharmacy how pharmacists can help such patients manage medical conditions such as pain, diabetes or COPD. Dr. Awad began his pharmacy education in his home country of Egypt and completed it in the U.S., after emigrating in 2001. As Dr. Awad’s responsibilities continues to grow, he relies on his training from NEOMED’s Health-System Pharmacy Administration program, from which he earned a Master of Science degree. “Integrating the dispensing and clinical pharmacy services within our locations has helped our patients achieve better clinical, economic and humanistic outcomes,” says Dr. Awad, who credits NEOMED pharmacy students and residents with contributing to the expansion and success of the pharmacy services. Working in a shared location with other health care professionals, such as physicians, dentists and behavioral health experts, Dr. Awad teaches NEOMED learners the importance of working as a team in health care.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT NAME: Megan Foreman, Pharm. D. CLASS: 2016 POSITION: Mental health clinical pharmacy specialist at the Youngstown VA Outpatient Clinic PRACTICING AT THE TOP OF HER LICENSE: Psychiatric pharmacy blended Dr. Foreman’s interest in mental health with her goal to be a pharmacist. Once patients have their initial visit with a VA psychologist, Dr. Foreman prescribes and manages their medications. “I get to see my patients and form a therapeutic relationship,” says Dr. Foreman. “For me, being able to enact that change is very freeing. To be able to use all the information I learned in pharmacy school to practice at the top of my license is wonderful.”

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PHARMACY ALUMNI

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OTHER NEOMED ALUMNI practicing health care throughout Ohio communities and beyond

THE FUTURE IS NOW OHIO PHARMACISTS RECEIVE PROVIDER STATUS For Ohio pharmacists, the ability to practice at the top of their license became reality with the passage in 2018 of SB 265, legislation that formally recognizes pharmacists as providers — and allows them to be reimbursed as such. Jaclyn Boyle, Pharm.D. (’12), assistant professor of pharmacy practice in the College of Pharmacy, was among the pharmacists and others who provided testimony to support the legislation. How will the new legislation change health care for patients? It will provide a higher quality of care at a lower cost, said Dr. Boyle in a NEOMED article. “Now, with an option to provide reimbursement for cognitive services, more patients than ever will be able to receive personalized care from a pharmacist. (The term ‘cognitive services’ means providing care that requires clinical judgement.”) Career doors will open because of this legislation, predicted Dr. Boyle, with the biggest growth in ambulatory care — care outside the inpatient setting. And opportunities for interprofessional collaboration will thrive, she added. Think of telehealth and development of innovative practice models, and you realize that the possibilities are endless.

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